The Ninth Gate Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Based upon 8 Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

Summoning silliness Roman Polanski salutes and spoofs satanic thrillers .Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

The script is so bereft of real surprises that it's best to keep the lid on what few there are.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Lacking noticeable energy or drive, its almost visceral distaste for dramatic momentum is puzzling, especially in a film about the black arts.Read the full review

Variety | Lisa NesselsonAdd Critic to Favorites

This is really a shaggy devil story whose giddy, ironic tone may throw viewers expecting a scary movie.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

A supernatural thriller that is neither super, natural, nor thrilling.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality.Read the full review

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